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IF YOU'RE READY / THE STAPLE SINGERS Play Video

IF YOU'RE READY / THE STAPLE SINGERS

If You're Ready (Come Go With Me ) - The Staple Singers from album "BE WHAT YOU ARE" in 1973

LET'S DO IT AGAIN (Original Full-Length Album Version) - Staple Singers Play Video

LET'S DO IT AGAIN (Original Full-Length Album Version) - Staple Singers

Title-track from the soundtrack to the motion picture "Let's Do It Again", this song reached #1 on the R&B chart in 1975.

The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There (1972) Play Video

The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There (1972)

There are certain songs that were so universally popular that they define moments in our lives. Well the Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There" definitely qualifies as one of those songs. Written by Alvertis Isbell,...

The Staple Singers - This May be the Last Time Play Video

The Staple Singers - This May be the Last Time

Eerie, lean sound from the Staples' Veejay years. The Rolling Stones have been accused of ripping this off, and of course they did, but if they owe anyone it is really the arranger Shirley Joiner. The song itself is...

Staple Singers - Why Am I Treated So Bad Play Video

Staple Singers - Why Am I Treated So Bad

Montreux Jazz Festival 1981 with Roebuck Staples on solo and Michael Logan on keyboards

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Staple Singers Biography

The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1914-2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (born 1934), Pervis (born 1935), Yvonne (b. 1936), and Mavis (b. 1939). They are best known for their 1970s hits "I'll Take You There", "Respect Yourself", and "Let's Do It Again".

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Staple Singers Lyrics

Staple Singers - Respect Yourself Lyrics

If you disrespect anybody
That you run in to
How in the world do you think
Anybody's s'posed to respect you

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Staple Singers - I'll Take You There Lyrics

Oh, mmm, I know a place
Ain't nobody cryin', ain't nobody worried
Ain't no smilin' faces, mmm, no no

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Staple Singers - If You're Ready (Come Go With Me) Lyrics

If you're ready
If you're ready now
If you're ready, yeah
Come on, go with me

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Staple Singers - Touch A Hand Make A Friend Lyrics

Can't you feel it in your bones?
Oh, a change is comin' on
From every walk of life
People are seeing the light

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Staple Singers - Be What You Are Lyrics

Oh man, you heard enough
Trying to live a risking life
Don't go out and buy a Cadillac
If you know your money ain't right

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Staple Singers - Bridges Instead Of Walls Lyrics

It's time we build bridges instead of walls
And give peace a chance to come across walls
Too long we've been isolated, it's time we communicated

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Staple Singers - Are You Sure Lyrics

Are you sure there's nothing you can do
To help someone worse off than you?
Think before you answer, are you sure?
Are you sure?

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Staple Singers - That's What Friends Are For Lyrics

Now just because I have you
You don't have to break your back to pay me back
Now, I don't give just to receive
I was taught at a Sunday school at the age of three

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Staple Singers Discography

Staple Singers albums.

  • City in the Sky - 07/03/1996 (Stax Records/US)
  • The Staple Swingers - 24/09/1992 (Stax Records/US)
  • Be What You Are - (Stax Records/US)
  • Be Altitude: Respect Yourself - (Stax Records/US)
  • Soul Folk in Action - (Stax Records/US)
  • Amen! - (Epic/US)
  • Swing Low Sweet Chariot - (Vee-Jay Records/US)
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken - (Vee-Jay Records/US)

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